YIKES! Just 1/4 mile from my boat

[mwph]

The storm that blew through early Monday morning ripped the floating pier away. The 20 or so boats, along with the pier floated a couple hundred yards until it grounded itself up against the highway.

 

[KayKook]

You were very lucky. It sure looks like a mess.

 

[tobnpr]

Looks like some pretty shoddy "construction" to me.
That thing wouldn't have lasted through a decent Florida thunderstorm, like we had this morning, as a matter of fact.

Don't they have building codes for those things, or can they just shove some steel pipes down into the mud?

 

[Skuza]

Son of a ! MAN that would suck!

 

[techmitch]

Looks like some pretty shoddy "construction" to me.
That thing wouldn't have lasted through a decent Florida thunderstorm, like we had this morning, as a matter of fact.

Don't they have building codes for those things, or can they just shove some steel pipes down into the mud?

:huh: duno but i'm sure there must be some kind of code for the size and the depth of the mud that they go into...

 

[cpchillin]

Up here in MD I know that they hammer those pylons at least 10 ft into the mud because I've watched them put an 18ft pole into 3ft of water with about 5 ft sticking up out of the water.